in the station but there may be some images of him as police have as they are trying to get a line who the shooter is. we have not had an incident like this in a long time in new york city. but in 2020, a homeless man set a garbage can on fire in a subway car and that killed the motor man of that subway. in 2017, isis plot to bomb the subways. a pipe bomb went off in a subway corridor, and of course we have the incidents of subway gunman bernhardt getz in 1985, and the colin ferguson shooting on the long island railroad, that is seen as a racial incident. police saying in this case the victims are of different racial and ethnic group, so does not seem to be a specific targeted group on this, and not calling it terrorism, clearly they are treating this as a mentally ill
smoke quickly filled the busy subway corridor near times square. cnn s jason carroll joins us with more. what more details have you learned? reporter: well, let s first, anderson, talk about the device, or should we say devices that the suspect used. law enforcement sources tell cnn that there were actually two devices. one that detonated partially detonated. the other did not. the one that partially detonated was the one that, as you say, was attached to his body. it was a pipe about a foot long. it contained black powder, screws, it also contained nails, a battery. again, this was a device that partially detonated. no information on the second device. obviously, given where this happened, given the timing, in terms of when it happened, you can understand why law enforcement sources say this could have been much much worse. do authorities understand why exactly he chose the location he did to set off the device? obviously, it s a crowded time, in a busy place. reporter: there